February gardening - growing vegetables

There is nothing to stop the cultivation of vegetables in this time of year, as long as you follow some simple rules. To start your vegetable garden in front of you in this time of year, the hot pavement, so that your vegetables need to begin to sprout earlier than normal.

My tip top - Hardy vegetables such as beets and carrots, soil temperatures are over 46F for tender vegetables such as beans and corn germinate need a warmer soil temperatureto 54F.

Heat the floor

plastic sheeting, old cloth or a garden ideal cold frame can be used to heat the soil in your. Ideally, you should use one of these methods up to six weeks before sowing the seeds of vegetables. The coverage will help to help the soil temperature during the day and reduce heat loss at night. If the soil is heavy and wet in your garden you might want to consider a raised bed as a porous soil is much easierhot.

Cabbage, onions, leeks, lettuce, a cold can be short, just grown in the frame, without pre-heating of the soil.

In the course of the season and the weather starts to warm up you can slowly remove the lid and your plants will harden. If an unexpected cold spell should use batteries to protect your young vegetables in the cold.

What is a cold frame?

A cold frame isEssentially a mini-greenhouse or home for your plants go between between their time in your greenhouse and garden. It 's small sealed box built on a deep soil, the plant protects your offer of cold and especially cold.